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Some of his many books on the culture of the Middle East include "Iran," a widely used textbook; an English translation of "The Mediaeval History of Bukhara"; "The Persian History of Nishapur"; and "The History of the Nation of Archers," which was written in collaboration with R. P. Blake...
From there he went to Taskhent, near the Afghanistan border, where he was again interviewed on the radio, and thence to Bukhara, from which point he retraced his steps--and his tickets--back to Helsinki and home...
When the war was over, the Society went back to more scholarly pursuits. In 1948, members were involved with problems of uniqueness and interpolation in mathematics, and the magnetic moments of nucleii in physics. A biologist was working on slime molds, an historian on a History of Bukhara translated from the Persian, and a sociologist on a study of modern radicalism. Today, the humanists are still holding strong despite the tendency of the scientists to swamp them. One is now informally attending the Law School to get background for medieval constitutional history. Another is trying to make some "connections between...
...qualified foreign observers appear to believe there is a likelihood of anything more dramatic happening here than a continuation of the arrests, dismissals, trials and shootings." It was dramatic enough that the Premier of Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, the Vice Premier, and the Mayor of Bukhara were ousted from their jobs last week. The Premier's brother had meanwhile committed suicide. Over in White Russia, where the President killed himself fortnight ago, it was Railway Commissar Nikolai Vladimirsky who committed suicide last week. A further shake-up in Red Army circles, following the execution of Marshal Tukhachevsky and seven...